Fireworks vs The Godfather

The Godfather has the higher audience score (8.7/10 against 7.7/10 for Fireworks). Fireworks is the shorter watch at 1h 43m compared with 2h 55m. The Godfather is the older of the two (1972 against 1997). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Fireworks posterFireworks1997 VS The Godfather posterThe Godfather1972
FireworksThe Godfather
Audience score★ 7.7/10★ 8.7/10
Year19971972
Length1h 43m2h 55m
GenresCrime, DramaCrime, Drama
Country–United States of America
DirectorTakeshi KitanoFrancis Ford Coppola
Main castRen Osugi, Takeshi Kitano, Susumu Terajima, Yuko Daike, Makoto AshikawaRobert Duvall, James Caan, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Al Pacino

Synopsis

Fireworks

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.

The Godfather

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

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